The gentle south wind, with its peculiar wetness and saltiness of the sea, was very comfortable on the human face, and Gawain smiled with relief with his blue eyes, stretched out his fingers, and played with the iron weather vane, making it spin around on the shaft and make a chirping sound. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

At this moment, Androdart appeared at the top of the stairs and stood behind Gawain, with beads of sweat on his forehead, as if he had rushed over, "Your Royal Highness, I have a suggestion about Trangzak's iron ore funds. ”

"Oh? I didn't go to the county magistrate, but I was very concerned about this issue. Gawain turned.

"That is, to put into the two hundred pounds of gold that Ruben secretly stored in the secret chamber of Vanka City before, at least one or two pits can be put into operation first." Androdart was out of breath and finally made his meaning clear.

Gawain laughed, "That gold can't be moved, there's no need to destroy the weapon at hand in order to forge another kind of weapon." If you take the gold, you will cause much more trouble than you will gain. Don't worry, Ander Odart, I naturally have a way to solve it when it comes to money. ”

Then the two of them walked down to the top of the fort together, and the southerly wind, which spread from them to the foot of the Taurus Mountains, blew the green grass and the multicolored words, pointed out the buds on the trunks of the towering trees, and let the stream wash through the white snow and black-red clay, and gurgled down the castle, and then it continued softly under the bird's wings, and flew over the towering peaks to the foot of the Algaeus.

There, also on the lakeside heights outside the castle of Karon, Anna sat in a chair, and a wild pear tree with a gray trunk fluttered out its yellow and green leaves, covering the head of the beautiful princess in purple, and gently wrapping her petite body in the shade.

Anna had been waiting for Gawain to come to Cappadocia to join her during the snow season, but the wars and government had delayed everything, and when the spring breeze blew away the frost that had fallen on the princess's tiara, she was astonished to see that now the snow, the frost, seemed to be rolling up all over the lake.

Anna raised her brown pupils, greeted the scattered sunlight, and looked at the windmill on the mountain over there, it slowly changed the direction of its swing arm, from slow to impatient, and whirled in the direction of the north, "Yes, the south wind is blowing." Anna sighed with joy, and then looked at the great "land of frost and snow" east of the city of Karon, which surrounded the lake, ah, this is not snow, nor is it really frost, because frost and snow are worthless, they are all white gold!

In front of her eyes, Ryan Stein commanded 4,000 migrated border salt farmers, using various agricultural tools, to cut all the grass on the land on the side of the Cappadocia Lake, and then cut the ditches where the land was excavated one by one. As long as it is opened, the white but stagnant water of the lake is introduced into the respective soil furrows, "and after a few days, the south wind will dry the water, and a large amount of white salt will be produced." Hetomia, who was beside Anna, explained.

"Now that a large amount of salt furrow is being cultivated, when will the water be diverted?"

"Your Royal Highness, please wait patiently for a month, the south wind begins to dry from March to April, and it can be produced until the end of the tax month, and at the current scale, at least 30,000 bushels of white salt can be produced this year."

30,000 bushels, which is equivalent to about 750,000 kilograms of weight today, is calculated according to the current number of about 600,000 people in Seleucia, and the minimum annual salt consumption per capita is two kilograms, which can achieve the self-sufficiency rate of 60% of the population of the territory in the first year. "Of course, 30,000 bushels is just today's production, and with the continuous expansion of the amount of salt cultivated, we will be able to achieve full self-sufficiency in salt in about three years."

And ...... The ensuing salt tax, even if we had only taken five gold coins of solidation per bushel, after deducting the wages paid to the salt farmers, would have received 150,000 gold coins in the first year...... It's just like silk, it's a huge income face-to-face......" Anna's eyes also flashed with salty tears, and she couldn't help but cover her small mouth with her hand excitedly.

Then Anna twitched her shoulders and laughed happily, "It's a pity that the big barbarian can't see such a magnificent scene." ”

"His Royal Highness the Grand Duke has left Tranzac and is coming to Tarsus, and it is time for you to join him, Your Highness the Princess." Hetomia continued to bow down in remind.

"Hmm......" Anna covered the fluffy robe skirt under her knees, then stood up, and finally asked the girl of the Orson family one last time: What kind of details is the current "Karon Border Zone" according to the plan of the big barbarian?

So the Imperial Ink Officer replied in detail:

Today, around the city of Karon, a total of 35,000 people, including salt households, have been organized into the "border people's system", of which 6,000 salt households are on the southeast side of the lake, engaged in the business of cultivating salt pans; The remaining 29,000 people were concentrated on the southwest and west sides of the lake, engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry - "the business of raising cattle, sheep and horses was slowly carried out, and workshops related to butter, leather, wool and cheese were planned." "In addition, the frontier people were exempt from the shield tax, unlike the communes in the interior, but they were to be drawn out of two thousand men, to be trained in military affairs at their leisure, to patrol the city, and to fight against the military colony of Danishmund, which was watching on the opposite side; In addition, the "Mounted Cavalry Regiment" directly under Her Royal Highness the Princess, with a total of 300 mounted cavalry, plus 1,200 military servants, is stationed in the border area with Konya, which is the killer weapon of our military defense.

"The military belongs to Walter, and the civil affairs are handed over to Ryanstein, and neither Sigma nor Gotti can be in charge alone, do you think there is anything wrong with such a personnel arrangement for Hertomia?" Anna asked.

"There is nothing wrong with this, in fact, during the winter of Her Royal Highness the Princess's patrol, all the soldiers and civilians were incentivized to produce livestock with peace of mind, and to build and strengthen the fortifications of the city of Karon, and Ryanstein also continued to recruit displaced people in the vicinity to fill the border fortress. The only thing to worry about was the Sultan of Konya, who seemed to be exhausted by the onslaught of His Majesty the Emperor. ”

"I'll come back to that later. Well, well, in fact, they can still get second-line support from your family and General Monomachus, and I can rest assured. Anna clapped her hands in satisfaction, "Go, Hetomia, we are going to cross the Cilician Passage and join the Great Barbarian." ”

The next day, to the sound of trumpets and drums, fifty armored cavalry from the gate of Karon City lined up in two teams, holding spears with banners of various colors, and watched the princess in purple on her shoulders towards the mountains to the south...... (To be continued.) )